Quotes About Suspense

For the first time I saw her as a dead body under suspended sentence.

Pienso en el cuento de Poe: los muros de hierro que se acercan, y el péndulo en forma de cuchillo que oscila por encima de mi corazón. En ciertos momentos se detiene, pero jamás se eleva. No está más que a algunos centímetros de mi piel.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

One night - it was in June, '89 - there came a ring to my bell, about the hour when a man gives his first yawn, and glances at the clock.

The function of suspense is to put the reader in danger of an overfull bladder.

Tension produces instantaneous anxiety, and the reader finds it delicious.

It's never a good thing when the black volhv says "Uh-oh" and then runs for his life.

I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.

I try to avoid stories that end with...and he was never seen again.

Suspense in news is torture.

When composing a story, withhold the essential information—do not mention whatever it is that causes the characters to act as they do.

Carol Druze Was A Stone Killer.

Listening to the Rabbits talk about their operations was like watching a horror movie in a foreign language. You sort of hoped you'd misunderstood what was going on. And then when you figured out what was really going on, it was worse than you'd thought.

Then out of the darkness a deep voice commanded, "Halt, in the name of the Continental Army!" "Halt?" Tony whispered. "Is he kidding?

King heard the bang, like the sound of a dropped book. He could feel the moisture on his hand where it had touched Ritter's back. And now the moisture wasn't just sweat. His hand stung where the slug had come out of the body and taken a chunk off his middle finger before hitting the wall behind him. As Ritter dropped, King felt like a comet flying hell-bent and still taking a billion light-years to get where it's actually going.

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The hands of the watch stood at five past eight. The only kind of death that can be accurately predicted to the minute had taken place, the death that takes its victim, … feet foremost through the floor, Into an empty space. 2 THREE TIMES IN THE past thirty-five years I had seen her name in print.

slaughter. And yet, so great is Mrs. Tuchman's skill that the reader forgets what he knows. Surrounded by the thunder of guns, the thrust and parry of bayonet and saber, he becomes almost a participant. Will the exhausted Germans keep coming? Can the desperate French and British hold? Will Paris fall? Mrs. Tuchman's

You're next.

For there is nothing more intolerable to mankind than suspense; when a thing is once decided, men can but endure whatever out of the catalogue of evils it is their misfortune to undergo.

Nothing's out of the realm. I think '24' has always keyed into that.

These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time.

What's so cool about 'Light of the Seven' - and what I love about 'Game of Thrones' - is you never know what's going to happen.

'The Hateful Eight' is like theatre.